The Self-Tuning Guitar

CowboyRobot writes "With the TransPerformance Performer you push a button to activate a mechanical re-tensioning of the strings to any of a few hundred tunings, 'accurate to within 2 cents over the entire tuning range', in a couple of seconds. They can even refit your existing guitar. There's a long audio interview with Jimmy Page on the site. It's funny to hear him speak."

Comments

Re:Alternate Tuning

[hyc]

Hm... I remember watching Martin Carthy playing live, and he retuned between songs all the time. Took 30 seconds, maybe a minute, and he talked about the song the whole time. I think if you're going to mess around with tunings, you should just get adept at tuning. If you're not fast and accurate enough to do it by ear, you're probably not ready to be playing around with it...

Nothing new

[why-is-it]

you push a button to activate a mechanical re-tensioning of the strings to any of a few hundred tunings, 'accurate to within 2 cents over the entire tuning range', in a couple of seconds. They can even refit your existing guitar.

Nothing new here folks. I saw ads for something like this in guitar magazines in the mid-90s (probably GFTPM.) Mind you, those ones could only be installed in a Les Paul, which seemed like sacrilege to me...